Horton Foote famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Iâ€™ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and donâ€™t ask quarters.
-- Horton Foote

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I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South,
-- Horton Foote

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Writing is the thing that props me up.
-- Horton Foote

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When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid
-- Horton Foote

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You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working.
-- Horton Foote

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But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos.
-- Horton Foote

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If I ever teach writing again, Iâ€™d say the first lesson is to listen.
-- Horton Foote

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I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.
-- Horton Foote

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I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.
-- Horton Foote

#People #World #Faces

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.
People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that,
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

Horton Foote famous quotes

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